UK Wii bundle instead of price cut
Wii Sports, WSR, WMP and console.
A trusted retail source has told Eurogamer that the UK will receive a special Wii bundle this Christmas instead of a price cut.
The console will be combined with Wii Sports Resort and Wii MotionPlus as well as the original Wii Sports game and a nunchuk, according to the retailer, but the price will remain £199.99.
Update: ShopTo has just listed the bundle and claims it's only 12 days away from a 5th October launch. Our original source says it may go on sale as soon as "next week".
Nintendo has declined to comment on "rumour and speculation".
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in other words: very little value for £200
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It will sell like hot cakes though. There are a lot more non-gamers in the UK than gamers and all the oldies and kiddies will lap them up. Two of my non-gaming mates bought Wiis this month alone (because
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And now for the point that internet people always forget. The type of people buying the Wii don't care that the online is bad, or the graphics are worse or that it doesn't play Blu-Rays. They want the Wii because it plays Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit and Wii Sports and Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. You see, to them, the PS3 and 360 would have an inferior library. Or do you think Nintendo's expanded audience would rather pick up a PS3 or 360 and some bang bang shooty games like Call of Duty, Uncharted and Halo instead?
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Well the price is still £179 (or less) everywhere that I can see..so is the price going to "remain" at £179 or go up to £199 due to the extras?
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Actually both HD machines are £50 more expensive; 360 owners need to shell out for a wireless adaptor.
@designerheadache: There is only 1 wii remote so only 1 wmp is required.
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That bundle doesn't represent very good value for money in my opinion because the hardware itself is vastly overpriced. The Wii should be £100 or less by now given the dated hardware inside it and the other stuff included in the bundle amounts to one full-priced game (Wii Sports Resort), an old tech demo in effect (Wii Sports) and an add-on that only turns the Wii remote into something it should have been in the first place, i.e. accurate!
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the 50 million you speak of don't perceive console value, they're just horribly ill informed. it's rock solid marketing that led to that 50 mil number, not value or quality.
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They have such a penny-pinching attitude though Nintendo. When Sony had a huge lead with PS1 they dropped the price to £129 to turn the screwon N64 and Saturn. They didn't "have" to but they did. Nothing like that from Nintendo.
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"Screw you UK peeps, you are all thick, so we shall charge you $326 for a $199 product."
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I can see it now.
Playground console debate
kid a: 'I got my Wii last year and have Twilight Princess for it'
kid b: 'I just got my Wii last week and it came with the new Wii sports the motion plus thing and nunchuk'
kid a: 'wicked!!!'
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Needs two controllers in the box. Up the price if need be - but if Nintendo wants more of that 'Wow quality time with my kid playing video games together' feeling that hooks the parents into buying more games for the kids - because they will want to play it themselves then they really should have put in a second controller.
And FOR CRYING OUT LOUD what does it take to make the Wii naysayers accept that the majority of Wii gamers are buying it because of the ease of use inherent in motion control? Yet they STILL hark on about the online, the graphics, blah blah blah. You CANNOT convince them that they should be praying at those altars instead.
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It's got quite a few "gamer" games IMO..although most will sadly be ignored by "gamers".
Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, Dead Space Extraction, COD:MW - Reflex, New Super Mario Bros, Rabbids Go Home, A Boy and his Blob, Tales of Symphonia
..of course it's hard to say if any are "killer" games..as "killer" games tend to be the games which are marketed the most....and I doubt EA/Capcom will spend a 20th as much marketing Dead Space/ Resident Evil on the Wii as they did on the 360/PS3 games (if they market them at all).
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But surely if you're going to make that (rather poor) argument, then the 360 would need 2 games and an extra controller (not making it look so cheap) oh.. and lets not forget a $100 (?!?) wifi adapter..
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Having played Halo 3 - more of the samey sameysome
GTA 4 - boring as hell compared to the fun which was vice city, pales in comparision to Saints Row 2
Gran Turismo - yawn
I can see why...
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*sigh*.. I sometimes REALLY wish gamers actually paid ANY kind of attention at school.
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Nintendo make a profit on their main hardware, Sony and MS do not. Completely different business strategies.
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Somehow i dont see natal & milo being bundled with the 360 for no extra price.
Sure - i'd have liked to have seen a price cut AND the bundle... But 2 free games, and a WMP packed in? They'll fly off the shelves!
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I've had my console since launch, have been on Live since then too and guess what? I don't own a wireless adaptor.
Anyway like a few have said, most retailers have been doing bundles like this since the RRP went up.
I haven't seen the sales figures for Nintendo since this price increase but I've noticed a huge drop in Wii sales in my store. IMO, judging by the fact that Nintendo are now sticking these extra bits and bobs in officially, I'd say even they're aware that the Wii is really not worth £200 for the bare bones machine.
And weren't they selling it for a profit way back when it was first launched? :/
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The market finds its own level. Period.
Goods are sold at the cost that people are prepared to pay. It doesn't matter whether *you* perceive the Wii to be good value or not, it just matters what the majority think.
As has already been said a number of times on this thread (and many others), people value different things in the gaming world, and "hardcore gaming" is NOT winning this generation's "console war". It just isn't.
As for myself, I currently own a Wii, DS, 360 and iPhone. The only one being used for gaming at the moment is the Wii, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
Am I a "hardcore gamer"? I've been playing video games since the 1970s, have had a huge selection of the available gaming hardware over the years including the original Nintendo Game & Watches, Frogger and Munchman consoles, Amigas, Playstations, etc. I live and breath video games and work in the IT industry, and I ONLY play on Wii at the moment.
We're all different, but the market finds its own level.
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If they could have squeezed another WMP into the deal it would have been exceptional, but I guess Nintendo don't feel they need to put a squeeze on their profits that much, and it's hard to blame them considering how well it's been selling so far.